Laura Mulvey

There are many movies that are known by the name chick flick movies. Chick flick movies are movies which are dedicated to female viewers instead of male viewers. Chick flick movies are referred to as “a sappy movie for women that men don’t like / chick flicks are commercial films that appeal to female viewers” (Ferriss and Young 2). This is true as chick flick movies concentrate mostly upon female characters. There are many movies that are referred to by the name chick flick; one of these movies…

view. Mulvey suggests that visual media exposes a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking. Mulvey believed mainstream movies are filmed in a certain way in order to satisfy male scopophilia. Therefore, according to this theory woman are regulated to the status of objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any influence on the plot but only provide a sense of erotic spectacle. However, Mulveys gaze…

3. PURPOSE a. The purpose of Mindy’s narrative is to educate her audience on how the filming industry and Hollywood portrays woman and set high standards and expectations to satisfy the male character. This illustrates one of the main themes known as ‘male dominance’ that is portrayed throughout her narrative. This theme is evident as Mindy describes each archetype; she ends each anecdote with each woman satisfying and being loved by a male character, despite any flaws or struggle that she may…

Thematic - Polanski’s depiction of Gender Roles and Voyeurism Polanski demonstrates and explores themes of voyeurism and gender roles in his films. Even one of his first student short films Uśmiech zębiczny (translated as ‘Teeth Smile’) (1957) explores these themes. In this short film, the man’s intense facial expressions and eagerness to stand on his toes to look through suggest that sexual desires is a warzone between men and women, and is something that has to be fought for. In this short…

In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance…

Laura Mulvaney, in her 1975 article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, describes the male gaze as being driven by “ the unconscious of patriarchal society” which is demonstrated through the “sexual differences which controls images, erotic ways of looking…

Gaze: I am impressive with the article “Gender Roles in Advertising a lot. As another person, I see a lot of magazines, advertisings, banners, but I have not notice about the “gaze” of the models in all of those pictures until I read this visual essay. It is wonderful to recognize the meaning of the “gaze” and how it affects the viewer. In the Gucci ad we ca she that the woman has a power to control the man and her eyes look like talk to the viewer that: “I sexy and I know it”. How smart it…

In 2001, Michael Haneke directed a film called, The Piano Teacher. Haneke’s attitude, as conveyed to the spectator, is not to rail against pornography, per se, but to rail against its impact as generated by a capitalist patriarchy. This stems from a similar modality introduced by Linda Williams1 in which she “...moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does.” (Slade 656). Haneke’s method portrays a patriarchal approach…

story displays his love for Laura, and how he felt about losing her. The story “King of The Bingo Game,” is set during a time of racial tension even in the North. African Americans were treated differently because of the color of their skin, which most likely shaped the narrators identity. Because he was a slave,…

1. Would you agree that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot perfectly encapsulates all the uncertainties of modernity? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. The absence of a meaningful plot, of objective dialogues and of absolute certainty is the state of absurdity. Beckett utilizes absurdity to play around with the concept of existential nullity which saw man trapped in a hostile world. Human life is meaningless and this created a sense of alienation, despair and…